Gory Soft Sooth
Michael Witkowski

Black mist hangs over the walls

that trudge slovenly halfcast

Smile to the folk before

folk runs scared away from halls

of gory soft sooth

that live never embraced

gory soft sooth

gory soft sooth

of castle walls

that life never embraced

the window panes are gory

and never tell the story

never tell the unrefurbished story race through your trepidation

race down your money,

exhaust your zest

in goodness you'll shake

tremble covered in burials

vested in red overalls

vested in sorrow

your vested interest

trade your sorrow intraday

come what may

gory soft sooth

gory soft truth forsooth

buried here in the walls

avid haunting calls

sooth

truth

sooth

for truth

Music to My Ears

The sound runs through your ears,

making feelings grow,

Music clams your mind and spirit,

and even your soul may know.

Music to my ears,

the lyrics passing by,

the son going piece by piece,

never tells a lie.

Music to my ears,

ticking time away,

Making people stick together,

Getting stoner every day.

" A CHILD HOOD MEMORY"... 
MELISSA VELEZ

I SEE YOU PUT THAT NEEDLE TO YOUR VEIN, I SEE YOU IN TEARS AND IN PAIN. I WALK OUT THE DOOR WITH NO CLUE ON WHAT TO SAY OR WHAT TO DO. A YEAR GOES BY AND YOUR STILL LIVING SHAME, WITH NO RESPECT FOR YOURSELF AND A BAD NAME. SUDDENLY, YOU START TO OPEN YOUR EYES AND SAY TO YOURSELF NO MORE SPOONS, NO MORE TIES, STOP BEING A JUNKY AND LIVING IN LIES, YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER TO HELP YOU AND A GRANDSON TO MAKE YOU REALIZE, THAT DRUGS ARE GONNA KILL YOU & MAKE YOU ILL, AND IF THAT DON'T DO IT THEN SOMETHING ELSE WILL.

WHITE CARNATIONS

You lured me deep into your heart's desire

Your sweet tongue, those melancholic sight

The reason why, I fear to know

For i might find my heart

Drowned in the arms of sorrow

You promised me a paradise

A heart that shall never know sorrow

The magic of love, the happiness it brings

Leads my heart tumble to the extreme

Lest I know the love I knew

Was love it was not

Lest I know the flowers in bloom

of white carnations, they were not

Dear God, Shower me strength

for shattered hearts, I met not before

Carnations of white may seem so pure and true

but death it might bring to you

SAILORS AND HELL GATES
(rIghT2 U,S. Sclevel Aunt)

At the beginning of sailing/all sailors are exposed/ to kill in a "HARD" journey/ if in war they're off the "BOAT".

They learn to trAnSgreSs the limits/ if they don't know it THEY GOT!TO LEARN/and if necessary go beyond limits/ with "bas ASS" power, if underground.

Once again the blazing fire/ transgress the limits of all exposed/

with "jokes",with force,or proudly/ "some"! proof the power that to us belong!

Their journey gets "HARD" like bullets/ to stop the enemies and just like bulls/ and if necessary "go beyond" limits/ or far together and all at once.

But isn't it great recognize them/and give them power, to "have our backs"!/ but this is not only amazing/ is just "HEROIC" to recognize.

So there a "big deal of experience"/ if we got "graceless" to understand/ that sometimes the blazing fire/ could separate families in our own lands.

We clearly could fight for freedom/ against the bad souls that "dares us" fast/ and not only with many BULLets/ but bas ass power if underground.

Once again they open hell's gates/ trespassing limits to defend all of us/ with "smiles", with force, or proudly/ we can not worry?/THEY HAVE OUR BACKS!

                           Dreary Days

                          by Anonymous

               Dreary like the coffee bits

               Sitting at the bottom of my cup.

               Floating on an ocean

               Of bitterness, just breaking the surface

               To gasp for a breath of air.

               Waiting, always, on the rainy days,

               For the sun to come out and

               Start the emptiness all over again,

               Just when time seemed to have stopped,

               And rotate in lonely space.

               Meditating for the truth

               If there ever was any hidden

               In the ashes of our cruelty,

               Floating in my cup of coffee,

               Dreary. Days.

RULER OF THE UNDERWORLD
jordan lee campbell

Death everywhere

Death here, death there

Most certainly death within me

My heart as cold as an arctic night

My soul as black as the night

No light may penetrate it

No human may touch it

That is the reason of spiritual isolation

That is the reason of mental insanity

Like a curse put upon me

I rule the underworld

My sanctuary, my life

The only place I belong

My destiny is to reign supreme overall

All non-holy and swarm evil

All who wish or dare to challenge me

I am destined to reign all depths

All depths of the underworld

And destroy all who challenge me

All who defy my power

For I will bring about the end of life

The end of happiness and end the world

To plunge it into complete and udder darkness

And as I have lived my life

All shall feel my wrath and tremble before me

And all shall feel the pain I have suffered

Because I shall rule all and all shall be mine

All heaven, hell, and purgatory

All shall be under my command

And all shall bow before I

Or burn in the eternal depths of hell

Invisible

Doesn’t anyone hear my silent screaming?

Cuz, it’s all I do.

A smile in place of a tear.

Don’t you wanna know what’s wrong with my world?

A laugh in place of a sigh.

You slaughter my dreams and then ask me why I cry.

I’m trying with all I am to hold myself together.

It’s not working.

No one sees how broken I have become, because they don’t take the time.

Reach beyond my surface and you’ll see…

What goes bump in the night,

Is my beating heart.

Realize, that there’s more to me, than what your eyes can see.

 " GOOD BYE"
shazia_khan

Slowly and slowly the night creeps on,

and all my wishes like a wind are gone...

I think of "YOU" but all on vain,

"Your"memories give me a lot of pain.

"Your"smiling face,

"Your"waving hand.

As if to say "you "are leaving this land.

"You"had loved me and so have I.

But now your eyes tell me "GOOD-BYE".

You said "you"were going and now "YOU'VE"gone,

though i waited for "YOUR"love so long.

But this moment I long for death,

though I've prayed for "YOUR"love,Im all alone as yet.

Inspite of all this for "YOUR" future life I wish "YOU"

                    "ALL THE BEST"

 GUARDIAN ANGEL

The light has gone out

My candles flame has disappeared

A chilling cold has drawn on me

There is no way to fight off this fear

Without a light to guide my life

To show the evils who lie and wait

Never to be shown by the light of day

Being their next target is my fate

But then you appear to light my life

My guardian angel through and through

I come to my senses and drop the knife

And thank God and give my life to you

For saving me for the terrible fate

That you had suffered at such a young age

As your breath was taken from your very body

When you died upon the desert sage

I know your one of God's special angels

And i will always pray on your heavenly grave

This Is Me

These are the feelings that haunt me inside

The sadness of suicide

The thought just to die

As I cut my wrists the words spill on the paper

They come slowly but harsh

The element of surprise is in my favor

For I hide all I feel oh so well

Happiness is all they see

For they see the outside

The side I hate of me

I fear all the truth

It hurts me so bad

And I show my feelings

My feelings are sad

But when I am happy everyone is so glad

So why ruin the moment

For its all that I have

I want to cry

But I must hide

For my tears pierce the skin

Releasing all the pain within

So this what I fear

I will not begin

For this is me

PAIN

A gun goes off

One, Two, Three

Too many times to count

People running, trying to get away

Children hiding in closets

Crying and begging for it all to be over

People waiting, hoping and praying

Out of the silence of the night

A mother's anguished screams

Cuts like a knife to the heart

A child lies lifeless like a rag doll

In the arms of a broken woman

Sirens wailing in the night

Giving those a false sense of hope

Knowing that when the police are gone

It all starts over again

Too afraid to talk

Too proud to leave their only homes

A gun goes off

One, Two, Three

Life is like…

By: Crystal Elizabeth Fry

Life is like a war you’re born into

You start out winning

And you think you’ll never lose

For the first 12 battles is nothing but happiness and glory

Then for the next few they start to get boring

You start to get cocky, thinking you can win them all

But than something happens to you and you start to fall

  Some of your soldiers’ start leaving, but you don’t seem to care

Until you realize you’re left standing there

All alone by yourself and you want to cry

But you won’t, and you can’t, because you have too much pride

Your world starts to crumble and you think it’s going to end

Then you remember, you remember what the Bible said

Phil 4:13

 “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.”

You began to get happy and excited once again

You rethink the verse and you say you know you can win.

 

Fading Glory

Twinkle twinkle little star

Why are you so much afar?

I lie down wond'ring in my bed,

My heart doth feel so much like lead.

Thou art wand'ring in the night,

I see thee shim'ring at Thy height;

So lost at the zenith of your glory

Do you not represent my story?

Twinkle twinkle fading star!

Thy face turns into a scar.

This ugliness doth scare

Those who long for thee despair.

Goodbye John Denver

     by Susan Hooper

The spoiled specter

of my lover

pronouncing death

with rattling bones.

With shimmer- sheen

of silky water,

feet trenched in sand-

low mottled moans.

And wispy ferns

and starfish wonder,

greet my journey

traveling home.

In the airless cool,

the creatures ponder.

Announce my death

in thundering tones.

the tragic day------

September 11th 2001,
SAMANTHA SPRY

The tragic day had just begun.

Our airplanes the terrorists into buildings had flung.

People were scared, some jumped from the sky,

Horrified we watched, you and I.

All the people in their streets sung,

For they thought a great victory they had won.

Thousands of americans lives were lost,

What an awful treasons act had cost.

United all americans stand,

Revenge all american people demand.

Soldiers they march gun in hand,

Terrorism these United States has band.

Those responsible how they will fall,

Our country will sing at last liberty and justice finally for all.

Boutheina Boughnim 

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Miriam Mason

“LIVE FOR YOU ­ DIE FOR YOU”
ashok gangwani

This sad rhythm - echoed in the sphere,

May spark turmoils in ocean of hearts;

I have wandered holding  in my hands,

The dead body of scattered pieces of my life

Sometimes I am with it in the lonely jungle,

Sometimes I am in my own deserted courtyard,

I have reached to the unreachable corners of earth

I have reached to the unreachable heights of universe

I have reached to the deepest places of ocean

I have reached to anywhere to just  have a glimpse of you

This sad rhythm - echoed in the sphere, may spark turmoils in clouds of heaven,

you discarding  and running away from me,

looking at my poverty and leaving behind me,

while sleeping in silky quilts, never u forget,

The pleasure in torn blanket can you ever get?

Never, never, and never again will there be someone,

Who lives for u and dies for u,

This sad rhythm ­ echoed in the sphere,

May spark turmoil in all the seven clouds. 

Free Bagatelles by P1o

Cyclical Problem of Public Sector Firms

bagatelle

Amateurs from political deal try to obtrude

their naive faith on specialists.

~~~~~~~~

Personnel Policy

bagatelle

The primacy of sociable instinct

Over intellect.

~~~~~~

Unclear Promotion Policy In Public Sector

bagatelle

Glooms of adherence.

When I was Alive"

Sunshine was so sweet

Seems the world was a different color

I could run all day

The world was so big

I don't feel welcome anymore

Overstayed, a common failing I have

                  -0-

 

An Argument

Perhaps a better view from here, a basic argument is near

And no way out I see you calling

Backing up your thoughts with jawing

Please placate your present temper

Leave the rain to stormy weather

 and leave me just another tethered

Fool among the garden soon

I’ll beg to please you more than once

But we’ve now become a lazy bunch

Of foolish grunts of paltry size

The desert sands within mine eyes

Will soon go down the streams of sorrow

Your checks they swell and start to borrow

The color from your lips to show the anger as it starts to grow

A way in which I know you’ve seen

A million times before this keen

And shallow reservation still

I hold back now through strained will

But the anger still grows arduously

As I recreate the night about the speech to which you gave to me

 Land of Shadow

Against a pallid sky

Where sable towers reach forever high,

Lies a starless and sombre land

Beneath the dark lord's hand.

Here a shadow doth loom

An impending doom.

Amid an ocean of night,

Fell beasts take flight.

Death and terror they bring,

A great malice swift upon the wing.                                

Darkness is all I see.

Numbness is my only emotion.

The light of day is but a faint memory.

I feel Death's breath on the back of my neck.

Death's icy hand on my shoulder.

I see the life flow out of me,

And it doesn't phase me.

I feel so empty, so alone.

My life means nothing.

There are no images flashing in my mind,

As I take Death's arm into my own.

I slip away from reality,

And I like it.

you told me lie

i believed you

now i cry

all alone

now your gone

out my life

now i cry

cry for you

for the love you said you had

i seen her with hickies on her neck

why couldn't be me

now i sit and cry

my heart so full of pain

i want to run away

from foster care

from my life

i want to die now

as i cry

i cry for you

why you had to hurt me

my poor heart

my poor feeling

you took them away

i cry

i wish you would die

i wish you felt what i do

the feeling of my heart ripped

i cry for you

i cry like little baby

i cry

monica tabbee

THE BEAUTY THAT STANDS
(Michael Edgar Rogers)

Eyes of Green

They sparkle with Fire

An Angel who Smiles

But,an innocent Desire

Madeline, O'Beauty, I See

Child of Jesus

Sweet Moment's Majesty

Fill up my Life

With Rainbows in Crayon

Kiss my Cheek with your Lips

Let us walk toward the Sun

Hair of Blossom Brunette

Caressing toward the Wind

Flaxen of the Shivering Kind

Open her up to watch her Unwind

More than meets Her Eye

So much to Ponder

Her Intelligent Mind

Will this ever stop?, its tearing me apart, having memories of you inside my heart. Flash backs begin to start of when we were younger, now were older and have drifted apart. Will these memories of you ever go away? Its causing me so much damn pain. Should i just sit here and wait? wait for all of this to stop. Well i've waiting long enough, to hear your voice once again, now im going to make it all stop. Finally we've come to an end, where there's nothing left of you and me inside my head. Its all comming to an end.

Lauren

 

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Soul Shory

DEAD AND GONE!

Staring at the world, through this door with glass no bars,

While sharing stories with some of the homeboys,

but, knowing deep inside their scarred.

So you listen and you try to help,

though you know it's all in vane,

cause a homeboy you just tried to help,

hung himself last night insane.

So you ask yourself, WHY OH WHY,

does life have to be so cruel,

to prey on the young and the weak at heart,

But in life there are no rules.

So day by day I pray for the strength,

and the hope that I carry on.

Cause you never know when,

when cruelty might win,

and leave us like my homeboy,

     

       DEAD AND GONE!!!    

 Stil Waiting

Each day I sit alone in my cell

And hope that once, just once

You’ll come by and knock on my door

I sit still and wish that once, just once

You’ll call and apologize for not being able to come

But you’ve never called nor knocked at my door

But I still sit there like an idiot

Waiting for you, and you won’t come

But still hoping that you will

And there I sit till night falls

And then I fall asleep

Still waiting for you

And my dreams are full of the days

We spent together, it seemed forever

And then somehow I feel at ease

The morning arrives and chases my dreams away

Then starts a new promising day

Lifting my spirits high, and again

I am waiting for a call or a knock

But you never come and I wish

I could tell that it is hard to keep faith and hope

That tires away at the end of the day

But you never knew and perhaps never will

 Know how hard it really is

But if you happen to change your mind

Know that I am still waiting and

Will always be.

MEMORIES

Rowan Beck,

Grandpa why aren't you moving?

Why are you just lying there?

Why aren't you talking?

What’s wrong?

I remember when I came to visit,

I saw the darkness taken you.

Grandpa keep holding on,

Grandpa don’t leave me,

Grenada keep holding on.

I remember when I came for Christmas,

I got lots of presents.

You should have saved you money,

So you came have a funeral for such a man.

Chameleon Sun

By Tamara Beryl Latham

The ball of light that sweeps the sky may be

transformed to Energy, for they are one.

We cannot look upon it, maybe HE

said, do not look directly at the sun!

And so HE comes as Mass, we clearly see

HIM as our type, some say that HE is White,

but others who have seen HIM disagree,

and claim HE's Black or Asian from their sight.

We'll soon expire into spheres of light,

for mass reverts back to pure energy.

We'll learn why Einstein's formula was right,

and comprehend his depth of theory.

Each moon now formed contains the soul of one,

redeemed in revolutions 'round the sun.

This pain that I try to hide

Is locked up deep inside

The scars you can not see

You can not hear my plea

Always trying to pretend...

Knowing my heart will never mend

If i keep running away

Why would you not stay

You can not see my tears

And my cries you can not hear

Your arms i can no longer feel

My heart....will it ever heal

My soul is empty and cold

I believed the lies you told

How you will always love me

And now you are not here to hold me

My tears fall into my hands

Slipping thru my fingers like sand

My heart is overflowing with pain

Like a dam during stormy rain

Lightning crashes all around

On my knees i fall to the ground

I look up at the sky

All i can do is ask why

The pain comes pouring out

As i begin to scream and shout

Bottled up emotions breaking free

Tears flowing like a raging sea

I should have known right from the start

That you were going to break my heart

But i believed in your sighs

As i gazed into those hypnotic eyes

You filled me up with such happiness

Now i am left with only loneliness

Why did you do this to me

Take my heart and flee

Like a fool I believed

While all along I was deceived

Trusting words which were empty

Now my tears are plenty

My heart must now mend

Although the pain seems to never end

For I have to let you go

As these tears flow..........

Death To Anger

I cannot fight this pain on the inside

I need someone in which to confide

I need to release all these thoughts of anger

So I do not  put somebody else in danger

I see now why it is that people fear me

I’m no more than a bomb of raging fury

I could make it better by telling my thoughts

But my pride is a barrier and its making me nuts

It’s building in me, I can feel it grow stronger

The hate will consume until I’m me no longer

I’ll become the hateful one that I fear

He’ll take the wheel so that I can’t steer

There’s the shivers, such a friendly feeling

A sign that the hateful one will start killing

He’ll take all that’s good and return it tarnished

I’m afraid my relationships will need more than varnish

I’m sick of fixing all of his screw ups

I’m sick of being lectured, grilled and chewed up

I have to get all this stuff off of my back

I have to get rid of this beast of black

But I’ll just keep him bottled here for now

Maybe I’ll get lucky and he’ll disappear somehow

Don’t count on it though, I’ve tried it before

He’ll come back for more blood … and more gore

9-11 A COWARDS ATTACK

~By~Diane L. Pennestri

A fatefull day nine eleven,

a day that scattered our heavens.

All was at peace then came attacks,

from cowards behind our backs.

Both towers under the test,

from terrorists on their quest.

Fright had only just begun,

wanting the Whitehouse and Pentagon.

A husband on the phone to his wife,

saying goodbye to her for life.

All on his plane made a block,

when someone shouted,"Let's Rock"!

Holding hands jumping to fate,

their escape was too late.

Firemen and Policemen lost their lives,

hard as thy tried few srvived.

Husbands, wives, sisters, brothers,

aunts, uncles, children smothered.

Our country never the same,

the search is on for Saddam Houssein.

I want to cry

by Pamela R Smith

I want to cry,

But I don’t know why.

Feeling so low,

And I just don’t know.

I want to love him,

My new friend Jim.

I want to feel alive,

And I really do strive.

To be the best I can be,

But right now that’s not me.

I was a wife,

Who had a life.

But now I’m not,

Thanks a lot.

My husband died,

And I cried and cried.

THE SPIRIT

by Chris Trammell

Moving in moving out

like a shadow keeping pace

never resting never sleeping

everyday another place

Through the moment it crawls

not to be undone

holding high above the heart

it's purpose for each one

Calling like a whisper

a breeze on twilight's eve

ever yearning for the soul

of those that will believe

Addiction

by: Codi

Screaming my name

They hold me in their prison

Guiding my thoughts

Hiding the ugly truths

The sheer exhilaration of being in their care

A contentment like no other

Then they leave you high and dry

All alone, to fend on your ugly thoughts

And fuzzy feelings

They have stole your happiness

Only wanting them even more

Wanting that feeling

Knowing they will do it over and over

Trying to let go but realizing your in a losing battle

They have claimed you for eternity

Nothing can take their place now

They wouldn’t have it any other way

YESTERDAY I WAS BACK THERE AGAIN

by:Vuyo.p.Calata

yesterday i was back there again.

yesterday i was that girl again,

oh how iloath her,she is pitiful,

she is a mockery,

- she's a joke.

yesterday i was that girl again.

after years of mantras, positive affirmations,

and all that ying-yeng,i was her again.

yesterday i was that girl sitting in the corner

waiting to be noticed.

they say the darkness causes fear of the unknown-

to be honest light is far more inductive to fear.

to have all my insecurities laid out for the vulture that is society

is simply conduct unbecoming.

yesterday i was that girl again, i feel so ashamed because i was her again.